Mark Meadows

Mark Meadows (28 July 1959-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R) from North Carolina's 11th district from 3 January 2013, succeeding Heath Shuler.

Biography
Mark Meadows was born on 28 July 1959 in Verdun, France, the son of a US Army soldier from Tennessee and a nurse from Arkansas. He graduated from the University of South Florida in 1981, and he became the owner of a construction and land development company in Cashiers, North Carolina. In 2013, he defeated Democratic Party candidate Hayden Rogers to become a congressman in the House of Representatives, representing the 11th congressional district. In 2014, he introduced a bill to US Congress that would make it illegal to provide funding to Hezbollah or its agents, and he voted in favor of the deposition of Speaker of the House John Boehner in 2015. Meadows was pro-life, homophobic, an opponent of universal healthcare, anti-background checks for guns, and an opponent of taxes, and he supported Donald Trump's failed attempt to "repeal and replace Obamacare" on 23 March 2017.